climate solutions

Impax Asset Management's Rhiann Gray shares thoughts on fundraising, benchmarking and the importance of distinguishing between ESG and impact.

Vacuumschmelze produces magnetic alloys of rare earth materials 'critical to the global energy transition', according to Ara Partners.

Some new LPs joined and existing ones reupped in a process that allowed the European firm to 'test the water' ahead of an ambitious fundraise plan for next year, says managing partner Jean Schmitt.

Morrison & Co’s Steven Fitzgerald said the investment is consistent with its decarbonisation thematic and ‘fundamentally’ has the characteristics of infrastructure.

Ara Partners has been scaling rapidly over the past few years, raising nearly double its target for Fund II.

The Article 9 fund will invest in projects to restore forests, wetlands and mangroves in developing countries.

Transport and energy systems require the most investment for us to reach net zero globally by 2050, a study by the Climate Policy Initiative and Allen & Overy has found.

The €1bn-target vehicle aims to offer a 'comprehensive and differentiated financing solution to projects and players involved in the energy transition', according to an announcement.

While the climate strategy sits within KKR’s infrastructure vertical, it plans to scale new solutions with growth investments as well as real assets.

Fund II has already raised nearly half its target and is expected to wrap up in the fourth quarter of this year.